Category: Consultative Group

Q – What is the UN Human Rights Council’s Consultative Group (CG)? A – According to the UNHRC’s 2007 Institution Building Package, this is a 5-member committee that performs a key role in the selection of what are now 77 top human rights investigators and advisers serving the Human Rights …

Acting in its capacity as chair of the largest group of nations at the UN Human Rights Council, the Islamic Republic of Iran has just submitted a resolution that reaffirms the peculiar notion that adoption of sanctions against another country is a violation of human rights and of international law, known in …

Houria Es-Slami, appointed UN expert in 2014 As chair of the UNHRC Consultative Group, the Saudi government has access to unique information and influence. Certain members of the powerful consultative group have in the past used their positions to unfairly privilege their preferred candidates. Most famously, …

Left: Faisal Trad, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Geneva, has been elected Chair of the UN Human Rights Council panel that appoints independent experts. Right: Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. GENEVA, September 20, 2015 – U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and EU …